I recompiled a new xastir and received the error on cloudmade 5, but no errors on tiled mapnik and osmrender. So Xastir is working fine on my machine. Steve
> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 18:56:54 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Xastir] (no subject) > > On 11/05/2011 05:52 PM, Tom Russo wrote: > > I ran cloudmade 5 sometime ago, have since discontinue running it. > Have removed it from map chooser and properties, it tries to load and > after 5 minutes of lagging in the left bottom window, the tiled > osmrender will finally load with the following errors. I installed > html2ps from synaptic and no maps, > just lines with number 4, Osmrender still works after removal of > html2ps, errors still there but xastir is working. thanks steve kd5mkv > > > > > > On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 12:20:22PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron > > collision of the<[email protected]> flavor, containing: > >> I used the cvs update this week and started recieveing errors in terminal. > >> I using Ubuntu 10.4 i386 on a hp 2250 minitower. > >> > >> execvp failed, errno = 2 (No such file or directory) > >> Magick: "html2ps" "-U" "-o" "/tmp/gm1un72c" > >> "/home/kd5mkv1/.xastir/OSMtiles/topOSMc/10/232/433.png". > >> Magick: Delegate failed ("html2ps" -U -o "%o" "%i"). > >> Removing /home/kd5mkv1/.xastir/OSMtiles/topOSMc/10/232/433.png > >> execvp failed, errno = 2 (No such file or directory) > >> Magick: "html2ps" "-U" "-o" "/tmp/gmJmV244" > >> "/home/kd5mkv1/.xastir/OSMtiles/topOSMc/10/233/433.png". > >> Magick: Delegate failed ("html2ps" -U -o "%o" "%i"). > >> Removing /home/kd5mkv1/.xastir/OSMtiles/topOSMc/10/233/433.png > > Seeing these "html2ps" messages means that the on-line map server you're > > using has returned an error. > > > > Here's what happens. > > > > Xastir issues an HTML request to the map server for a PNG file. It ASSUMES > > that it gets a PNG file back, and sends it off to ImageMagick for > > processing. > > > > But if the server returns an error, it returns HTML text (usually). > > ImageMagick tries to convert the HTML to an image, which requires a script > > called "html2ps" that you clearly don't have installed, so ImageMagick > > is complaining. > > > > But even if you did install html2ps, what you'd wind up with is an HTML > > error > > message in your Xastir window instead of a map. And it may well be that the > > message is illegible (I had that happen once to the weather radar overlay, > > and was wondering why there was a hash of junk in one corner of my map > > window, > > and finally figured out that it was poorly rendered, distorted text). > > > > So there are two problems > > 1) The map server you're using is returning an error > > 2) You don't have the html2ps converter installed > > 3) Xastir doesn't notice that it got an HTML file instead of the PNG it > > assumes its gotten > > 4) I can't count. > > > > > > Your best bet to solve the issue is to switch to a different online map > > choice. > > > > But since you mention "cloudmade_5" it looks like you're trying to use one > > of > > the OSM un-tiled map options. You might like the tiled versions better > > anyway. Try OSM_tiled_mapnik.geo or OSM_tiled_osmarender.geo. > > > > The tiled versions run much faster once they've downloaded a few batches of > > tiles, because they're not trying to load the full screen image for every > > view. They download tiles that cover part of your view, so when you pan the > > work it's done previously is not all wasted --- as you pan, it only has to > > download new tiles for the areas that got moved into view, and can reuse the > > tiles that were in your previous view. > > > >> Maps load but sometimes lags on a map "loading online/osm cloudmade 5.geo > >> which I have chosen in map chooser! > >> Then it loads osmrender map I have selected in map chooser. I have rerun > >> the apt-get for imaginemagik and graphicmagik are the latest. > >> Is okay? It is working properly? thanks Steve kd5mkv > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Xastir mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
